Bug#801401: cannot start X from the console command line

[James Richardson <james@jamestechnotes.com>]

Julien Cristau writes:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:59:27 -0400, James Richardson wrote:
>
>> Package: xserver-xorg
>> Version: 1:7.7+12
>> Followup-For: Bug #801401
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>> I resolved this on my workstation by installing xserver-xorg-legacy
>> and adding the line
>> 
>> needs_root_rights=yes
>> 
>> to /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
>> 
>> 
>> In case it matters: my init system is runit, I run fluxbox via startx.
>
> It does.  X won't work as non-root without logind:
>
>> [   172.319] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: The name org.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service files

I don't have systemd-logind installed, so obviously it will not get a
systemd session, nor do I need such a thing. Other than that it works.